Pattern Design (Dover Art Instruction) Paperback - 1999
by Lewis F. Day
- Used
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- Title Pattern Design (Dover Art Instruction)
- Author Lewis F. Day
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola NY
- Date June 24, 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ00GXHB_ns
- ISBN 9780486407098 / 0486407098
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.66 x 5.42 x 0.69 in (22.00 x 13.77 x 1.75 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts), Decoration and ornament - Themes, motives
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99045781
- Dewey Decimal Code 745.4
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From the rear cover
Take any form you choose and repeat it at regular intervals, and, just as repetitive sounds produce rhythm or cadence, you have pattern. However, the use of pattern in design is no haphazard matter, but a disciplined activity in which the artists must impose a pleasing order and structure on the whole to achieve an aesthetically satisfying end product.
This classic guide, revised and expanded by Amor Fenn three decades after its publication, teaches artists to do just that. Surveying a multitude of applications, from architectural detail to decorative textile printing and typographic patterns, Day provides insight into the geometric foundations of all repeating patterns, and treats in a practical way the anatomy, planning, and evolution of repeated ornament. He demonstrates the extent to which pattern is the essence of the ornamental arts, and offers a wealth of technical information for the student and designer.
Generously illustrated with more than 270 designs ranging from old Japanese, Persian, and Arabian patterns to early 20th-century motifs, Pattern Design will stimulate the imaginations and advance the skills of novices and experts alike.